In computer programming, dataflow programming is a programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing dataflow principles and architecture. Dataflow programming languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in order to bring some functional concepts to a language more suitable for numeric processing.
Dataflow programming focuses on how thin...
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In computer programming, dataflow programming is a programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, thus implementing dataflow principles and architecture. Dataflow programming languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in order to bring some functional concepts to a language more suitable for numeric processing.
Dataflow programming focuses on how things connect, unlike imperative programming, which focuses on how things happen. In imperative programming a program is modeled as a series of operations (things that "happen"), the flow of data between these operations is of secondary concern to the behavior of the operations themselves. However, dataflow programming models programs as a series of (sometimes interdependent) connections, with the operations between these connections being of secondary importance.
One of the key concepts in computer programming is the idea of "state", essentially...
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